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Wearable Basketball Tech: Should You Bring It To a Pickup Game?

New devices aim to help you improve your game like the pros do. But do you really wanna be "that player" at your neighborhood's next game?
This is a place for casual sport, not madness.Flickr/Jeffrey Zeldman

In the opening scene of "White Men Can't Jump," Billy Hoyle (played by Woody Harrelson), is spinning a weathered basketball as he walks along the streets of Venice Beach, his eyes set on the neighborhood's famous pickup courts.

"Is this where Eddie 'The King' Faroo and Duck Johnson played?," Hoyle excitedly asks a group standing near one of the courts.